Re: [CR] Bicycle Quarterly Brake Contest - SOLUTION

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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 13:37:31 -0700
From: "Kurt Sperry" <haxixe@gmail.com>
To: Jan Heine <heine94@earthlink.net>
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] Bicycle Quarterly Brake Contest - SOLUTION


Mr. Traunecker's drawing seems to say essentially the same thing more succinctly and with less risk of ambiguity. Glad he won a prize! But then again I'm a visual artist so might not be entirely objective here.

Kurt Sperry Bellingham, Washington USA

2009/4/1 Jan Heine <heine94@earthlink.net>:
> In the Winter 2008 issue, Bicycle Quarterly had a contest - the first reader
> to offer an accurate and complete description how the "Funiculo" brake on
> the 1935 Schulz works won a prize.
>
> The contest was open to all via our web site. The solution was published in
> the Spring 2009 issue. Now it has been posted online as well:
>
> http://www.vintagebicyclepress.com/currentissue.html
>
> And no, the Schulz (Funiculo) brakes are not an April Fool's joke - they
> work very well indeed.
>
> Jan Heine
> Editor
> Bicycle Quarterly
> 140 Lakeside Ave #C
> Seattle WA 98122
> http://www.vintagebicyclepress.com